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S vs Ahead - What's the difference?

s | ahead |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adverb ahead is

in or to the front; in advance; onward.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    ahead

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In or to the front; in advance; onward.
  • The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.
  • Having progressed more.
  • He is far ahead of his class in math.
  • In the direction one is facing or moving.
  • Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
  • in the future, preceding
  • *{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
  • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them. }}

    Derived terms

    * ahead of one's time * get ahead of oneself * straight ahead

    Antonyms

    * (nautical) astern * behind

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